Oct 07, 2008 16:09
Page 56 Meme
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
"This is the book that has shape us and will continue to shape us."(7)
The bible is
"the constitution of the Christian world",(8) "the ground of the world in which
Christians live",(9) "the primary collection of ancient documents with which
Christians are to be are to be in continuing dialogue. This continuing conversion
is definitive and constitutive of Christian identity. If the dialogue ceases or
becomes faint, then we cease to be Christian and become something else."(10)
"To be Christian means to live within the world created by the Bible. We are to
listen to it well and let its central stories shape our vision of God, our
identity, and our sense of what faithfulness to God means. It is to shape our
imagination, that part of our psyches in which our foundational images of reality
and life resides.
(from: "Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church - Reclaiming the
Spirit of Jesus," Bishop Geoffrey Robinson, John Garratt Publishing,
Victoria Australia, 4th Printing, Nov. 2007)
That's was the book next to the laptop. If you are interested in the politics and power of sex and church's use and misuse of power, this book pretty much lays it out there.
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